Kayle vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Kayle
based on 1,861 Kayle vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Annie
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Kayle vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several significant Kayle versus Annie counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Annie..
Kayle often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Annie. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Annie
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Who is Better, Kayle or Annie?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when trying to fight Annie, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a good counter for Annie.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate than Annie, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Annieas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Annie matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kayle is a decent counter for Annie. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Annie.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kayle
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle in order to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Annie. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kayle versus Annie build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Riftmaker, and Kraken Slayer. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Annie than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 52.0% battling Annie with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Annie as Kayle, Kayle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kayle vs Annie counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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